It turned out that there were no fortresses in the northern part of Anxi City.

Yu Zang Huama surrendered to the Song Dynasty and bewitched the Song Dynasty to send troops to Xixia. He was defeated. Yu Zang Huama regretted it a little. Under the call of Liang, the rats were both ends. The more this happened, the Song Dynasty dared not build a fortress in the north of Dingxi City, so as not to anger Yu Zang Huama.

Until Wang Ju came, but at first Wang Ju was still defensive and focused on internal affairs. After the autumn of the previous year, the situation gradually improved. Wang Ju ordered the front line soldiers to build Anxi City in Ruzha Valley more than 20 miles north of Dingxi City. This location is very important. There are only more than 100 miles to the west to Yuanchuanzi and Kangu Fort. Then to the north is Huining Pass. Following a valley to the southwest, it is the northwest corner of Qinzhou. As Pingxi Village was built more than 30 miles north of Anxi City. Last spring, Huining Pass was built in a very dangerous place north of Pingxi Village.

Last year, in Pingxia City, Li Xian built seven or eight fortresses including Shengru Fort and Desheng Fort, and snatched Nanhuizhou from the Xixia people.

However, this time, Wang Ju ordered the fortresses built by Li Xian to give up. Even Huining Pass gave up when he was in front of him.

But when you arrive at Pingxizhai, you can no longer be released.

This area was extremely important. In the historical battle of Chen'eryukou, Xu Da defeated Li Siqi and Wang Baobao, thus taking Gansu.

The battle to Pingxizhai is about to begin.

But there is an extremely important figure who determines the direction of this battle.

Yu Zang Huama opened the letter in his hand, with only a few words on it: I went to Shaanxi soon!

But just these words, Yu Zanghua Ma's forehead was sweating.

Thanks to Sima Guang and others, they tried their best to promote Wang Ju as a butcher, but for these barbarians and Hu people, the butcher works!

Just like Xue Rengui, he was born in Tianshan (Tianshan in Inner Mongolia, northeast of Beijing, not the Tianshan Mountains), and he was so sad. But when he was in his seventies, he only took off one of his lower armors, and more than one hundred thousand Turks fled. But he implemented a benevolent and righteous policy in Qinghai. As a result, he ended up

Among these rumors, it is said that Wang Ju killed millions of people in Jiaozhi, so that Jiaozhi would not grow in a single grass and blood would flow into a river. But Yu Zang Huama did not believe it. If you don’t say anything else, just say that in Qingzhou, the 300,000 Xixia army was killed by Wang Ju.

He stumbled and said, "Aren't Taibao the prime minister in court?"

"Our dynasty was defeated two times. Your Majesty summoned the Taibao from overseas. The Taibao promised that he would come to Shaanxi for three years and three years later to wipe out the bandits for the court. Now the three-year period is coming, and the Taibao is about to come to Shaanxi." Song Zhong, who was sending the letter, said.

Yu Zanghua's mouth twitched straight, saying, "But I am loyal to the Song Dynasty."

"Yuzang Group Training Envoy, can you deceive us, but can you deceive Taibao?"

Yu Zanghuama's face turned pale. After a while, she drooped her head and said, "I was wrong, I was wrong."

"Taibao told me that you don't admit your mistake and let me leave immediately and let him deal with you. If you admit your mistake, Taibao asked me to bring you a few words."

"Please give me the order."

"Even if you are in harmony with the Xixia people, there are two important gates in front, Wang Wenyu and Li Xian on the left, Zhang Gong on the right, and countless elite soldiers and General Miao on the back. Can you succeed?"

"Even if you have scrambled before several armies arrived, you have defeated Anxi City and Pingxi Village, can you occupy this place? Let's look at the battle of Pingxia City!"

"Actually, you can't even do this. Even if you can do it, you can't occupy it. Besides, you will come to Shaanxi soon. At that time, you will have one way to take your tribe to Xixia. But in this case, how many tribes can you take away?"

"The Liang family is moody. Even their own sons dare to be detained. Besides, it was because of this that you rejected the Liang family and defected to our court. When you use you, you may win you over sweetly, but when you don't use you, you have no power in your hands, and you are a Tubo person who is not happy with Dangxiang people. Maybe Xixia will be defeated again. What will happen if you go to Xixia?"

Four questions, I asked more sweat beads on Yu Zanghuama's forehead

After a while, Yu Zanghuama said carefully: "Please rest assured, I will definitely send troops to help China."

The word China appeared very early, but it did not mean that China in later generations. It represents the Central Plains, or refers to the most powerful country in the center of the world. Therefore, the Black Khan often calls the Khitan China. The reason for this is that they believe that the Liao Kingdom is the most powerful.

However, generally speaking, the term China refers specifically to the Central Plains countries of the Han people, and now it represents the Song Dynasty.

Song Zhong said, "Yuzang's envoy, Taibao said that if you say you send troops to help, he will not use it. Please watch it on the wall. Although I am in the capital, thousands of miles northwest, everything is under my control."

Yu Zanghuama sweats more.

It is not Wang Ju pretending to be a god and making a fool of himself. It often doesn't make sense to reason with these people. It's better to pretend to be a god and make a fool of him than to be a god and make a fool of himself.

Besides, Yu Zang Huama was just sending troops, so he was not relieved. How Gao Xianzhi was defeated by Dashi was caused by Ge Luolu's rebellion at the time of the battle, otherwise Gao Xianzhi would not have been defeated so badly.

Song Zhongjing responded.

Liang Yipin arrived.

The one who attacked the previous one was Pingxi Fort.

One is relatively small, but not small, and can accommodate five or six thousand officers and soldiers. However, compared with Anxi City, it is indeed relatively small.

The second one is at the forefront.

But Liang Yibu said he had a headache.

The camping day was disgusting since the camping camping, because the artillery was too far away and had to be driven far away. But has there been such a long camping to attack the city since ancient times?

What's even more disgusting is the next day.

The next day, the three armies were preparing to attack the city, but indeed, they were far away, and the roar of cannons came.

Rendoring's miserable defeat was unexpected, but it was baptized by the Song army with tiger cannons and thunderbolts. After Pingxia City's miserable defeat, Xixia also thought seriously. Therefore, when he heard the sound of cannons, Liang Yibu immediately ordered with a horn and the three armies fell down.

Indeed, this reduces casualties.

But Liang Yibi was neglected one thing: this is the artillery, so why it is used to replace the tiger-jue cannon? It is not a matter of range. In fact, some large tiger-jue cannons have a considerable range, and the main reason is its firing.

On the other side of Mingsha City, the Song army did not bring many artillery items, but brought many siege equipment, including a large number of real ladders, tower cars, and crashes.

Not only that, since last year, the Song Dynasty has successively built hundreds of artillery pieces. But there are only so many, no matter how much, the economy is unbearable. The cost of making this thing is terrible.

Therefore, there are a large number of artillery artillery in the northwest. More than 100 cannons were also placed in these forts, including more than 50 forts in Pingxi, including more than 20 cannons.

For a medium-sized fortress, so many artillery can be considered quite considerable.

Not only was the gun firing fast, but it was also firing in turn, which seemed to have never stopped.

But tens of thousands of soldiers can't just lie down like this.

Even when they were lying down, there were still soldiers who were suffering casualties. There were too many people, so how could they lie down? Cannonballs would hit Xia Bing.

Liang Yibu was stunned. After a while, he finally sounded the horn to continue attacking.

Just die, at least you have to rush under the wall of Pingxizhai.

In fact, this should be the case. Is it a matter of lying? At least you have to dig a trench and then lie down to truly reduce casualties. Then, while digging a trench, approaching the city wall. When you are close to it, the power of the artillery will not be great.

But it just came out, who knows?

After many sacrifices, the Xia army finally rushed to Pingxi Village, and there was still a task. A moat blocked the way. Fortunately, there was little mountains and water around here, and the trenches were not deep. It was easier to fill it.

But the second one came out.

Seeing that most of the Xia army was killed, some people began to fill the trenches. Guo Jingxiu ordered the three armies to shoot arrows on the top of the city.

It is not an ordinary mulberry bow, but a divine arm bow of all colors. After repeated improvements, the range has been slightly shortened, but the requirement for arm strength has been reduced to one stone and five stones. As long as a slightly stronger soldier can basically pull it away. In fact, the divine arm bow at this time was close to the ephedra bow of the late Song Dynasty. Although the range was slightly shortened, the arm strength requirement was reduced and the degree was faster.

Its range has become shorter, and its general range has reached 200 steps. The effective range of killing exceeds 150 steps, which is far better than the original composite bows such as the black painted bow.

The trench was not very far from the city wall. The enemy opposite the trench was just within the range of the Divine Arm Bow. Thousands of officers and soldiers shot in anger, and immediately hundreds of Xia soldiers fell in a pool of blood.

"Get on the shield." Liang Yipeng shouted anxiously.

It’s not okay to have a shield. There are some tiger-climbing cannons in the village. It’s not far away anyway. Put a large gunpowder bag on the tiger-climbing cannon and throw it outside the city. What’s so bad is that there are many caltrops and nails in these gunpowder bags.

For a moment, screams continued outside the city.

As a result, after one day of attack, the city wall of Pingxizhai did not move, but the Xixia people lost the lives of nearly two thousand officers and soldiers.

As evening approached, Liang Yifu ordered the withdrawal of troops dejectedly.

At the third update, there was a sudden sound of shouting for killing outside the camp. Liang Yibi was awakened by the shouting for killing. He hurriedly put on his clothes and crawled out of the tent. He saw a Song Dynasty cavalry rushing behind the outer camp and returning to Pingxi Village carelessly.

In fact, Wang Ju sent these generals to him, all of them were tiger generals selected from thousands of times. However, Guo Jingxiu was the oldest and experienced. Especially when he followed Zong Yan to Mizhizhai, he performed very well in that battle, second only to Zhe Keshi, so Wang Ju let Guo Jingxiu be at the forefront.

In fact, the Xixia people suffered not much casualties during this night attack, but they frightened Liang Yip, which reminded him of several night attacks commanded by Wang Ju, the commander of the Qingzhou Battle. So he immediately ordered the three armies to be alert at night to prevent the Song army from attacking the camp again.

Moreover, he also changed his plan the next day and secretly sent an envoy to Dingxi City to contact Yu Zang Huama, and cooperated with him inside and outside to succeed.

At the same time, Guang sent scouts to inquire everywhere that they were not the director of Xixia's siege, but after leaving the city, the Song army was no match for Xixia. In fact, he was really wrong. Xixia always dispatched more than 100,000 troops to fight less. In fact, with the force equal, he was no longer an opponent of the Song army, even if there were too many infantry in the Song army.

However, although the infantry in the Song Dynasty still accounted for the majority, there were also many cavalrymen. Wang Ju's horses were purchased from Tengchong Prefecture and the Tubo people in Xihe. Last year, many war horses were seized from the Xixia people, which restored the number of cavalry to the number before the Xiaxia. Don't ask if the time was short, most of these war horses were handed over to the Fanluo Army by Wang Ju. As long as they had horses, they were already qualified cavalry. Moreover, they also conducted some cooperative training last winter.

But now the focus of the Song Dynasty is still on Mingsha City. As for this place, let’s drag it for now.

Of course, Liang Yipin didn't know all this.

After giving these two orders, Liang Yibu thought about it and sent an envoy to Qingtang to pass on the message. We had already taken action against the Song Dynasty. We fought for a day in the rain of arrows and bullets, and sacrificed nearly two thousand soldiers. Have you taken action?

When we get here, we are closer to Qingtang City.

The trouble is that it is Lanzhou. Fortunately, the Song Dynasty released Huining Pass in advance. Although it was a mountain road, it was not too far away to reach Hexi (west of the Yellow River).

Then Liang Yiqiu started to act.

But soon he received two very bad news. First, Tubo, there was another reason why Gui Zhang used troops to Taozhou. He had secretly communicated with some foreign troops in Taozhou. This time he used troops, and sent people to order these foreign troops with seals. He cooperated inside and outside to quickly capture Taozhou.

He was so quick that he was afraid of others. Before Zhong Yi, the magistrate of Minzhou, could react, Taozhou was captured by Aligu and Zhao Chunzhong was captured alive.

Zhao Chunzhong was not an official in Taozhou. Some Han officials in Taozhou saw that Tubo was in a wrong way, so they all fled.

As for Zhao Chunzhong, he is a well-known figure. His name is Ba Jijiao, which is Mu Zheng's younger brother.

In fact, after the Song Dynasty took down Mu Zheng, he was always very good at Mu Zheng. He was once appointed as the Taiwei. Mu Zheng had three characters, his eldest son Long Ji, and his Han name was Zhao Huaide. His second son Bang Piwuding. His Han name was Zhao Huaiyi, his third son Gaiyi, and his Han name was Zhao Bingyi. After Mu Zheng died, he inherited the Taiwei with Long Ji, and he also used Zhao Bingyi to stay in the two prefectures of Taohe.

Several of Mu Zheng's younger brothers were either captured by the Song army and persuaded to surrender, including this Bajingjiao. Zhao Xu personally named Zhao Jizhong, Zhao Jizhong, Zhao Shaozhong, Zhao Chunzhong, and Zhao Cunzhong. They all had official positions and had a considerable official position.

And it also came to this point, so although these brothers did not make great efforts for the Song Dynasty, they were considered to be content with their own self-reliance. At least because of them, there was no great difficulty in governing Xihe in the Song Dynasty.

Even the Song Dynasty let some people continue to rule their territory, as long as they don’t become kings and dominate them.

This is more kind than Wang Ju's actions with the Duan brothers in Dali. Of course, the Duan brothers' shine cannot be compared with the Mu Zheng brothers.
To be continued...